More noise
You hold yourself steady in the meeting.
Measured in the conversation.
Contained at the dinner table.
Composure. Professionalism. Maturity.
All good names for the same quiet cage.
Notice how kids act?
They run for no reason.
Laugh too loud.
Spin until they fall.
No one's taught them to stay small yet.
That comes later and we call it growing up.
But the body remembers what it wants.
To move without reason.
To make sounds without a script.
Stillness has a place.
But held too long it stops being calm.
It starts being absent.
Today is a good day to be a little louder.
We call it composure. We call it keeping it together. But stillness held too long stops being calm and starts being absence.
